From providing food and succour to pavement dwellers to helping the elderY in times of need, Dinesh Saravanan has been a godsend to the needy.
In an age when the electorate is increasingly impatient and changes governments every 5 years, how did the Tamil Nadu chief minister beat anti-incumbency?
Gujarat, Kerala and Tamil Nadu have topped an index that ranks states on food safety parameters for the 2020-21 year, according to an FSSAI report unveiled by Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya on Monday. The index ranks states on five parameters of food safety: human resources and institutional data, compliance, food testing facility, training and capacity building besides consumer empowerment. Gujarat, Kerala and Tamil Nadu have topped in the list of large states on the index.
'I'm pitching India for the strengths we offer, including the English language, engineers, doctors, nurses, professionals, innovative talent of startups.'
Stalin, like his father M Karunanidhi did in 2004, may play the king-maker in a way -- not the king, unless the 2024 post-poll circumstances throws up a situation where he alone becomes acceptable to the rest, observes N Sathiya Moorthy.
The Supreme Court on Wednesday directed the Centre to ensure that all schools and hostels of educational institutions occupied by the Army and paramilitary forces are vacated within two months. An order to this effect was passed by a bench comprising Justice B Sudarshan Reddy and Justice S S Nijjar during the hearing of the issue relating to the trafficking of 76 children from Manipur and Assam to Tamil Nadu.
24-year-old Kartheeban, an engineering graduate, on what motivates him to help school students.
Reflecting the woes of transgenders who have remained social 'untouchables' with restricted access to education and jobs, only a minuscule 2,996 transgenders in Tamil Nadu enrolled themselves in the 5.3 crore strong voters list.
The Madras high court bench in Madurai on Monday directed transferring the probe into the death by suicide of a 17-year-old girl, allegedly coerced to convert to Christianity, to the Central Bureau of Investigation.
Tamil Nadu Cabinet has decided to recommend late All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam supremo Jayalalithaa for India's highest civilian honour, the 'Bharat Ratna'.
The government has decided to establish four new IITs and six IIMs in various states besides upgrading some of the state universities to the status of central universities. While the new IITs would be located in Orissa, Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat and Punjab, the IIMs would come up in Tamil Nadu, J&K, Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh, Uttarakhand and Haryana. For this state governments had to offer adequate land at suitable locations and at free of cost with infrastructure & connectivity.
Lashing out at both the opposition and ruling fronts led by the Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party, the All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen MP Asaduddin Owaisi on Thursday said that neither dukandar nor chowkidar opens their mouths when Muslims are oppressed.
'Those who had no participation in the freedom struggle and creating history are keeping out one of the heroes of the independence struggle. This act, done out of political vindictiveness, is not good and shows their narrow mindset. It is an insult of each and every freedom fighter,' Raut claimed.
The Centre has asked the states to convert all single-teacher schools into at least three-teacher institutions as there are a large number of qualified teachers in the country who are jobless.
It also promised to repeal the law banning religious conversions.
The Centre on Tuesday told the Supreme Court that it has held consultative meetings with all state governments, Union territories and other stakeholders on the issue of identification of minorities at the state level and 14 states have furnished their views so far.
The army and air force have been deployed for rescuing stranded citizens after torrential rains have left residents marooned.
Opposing the creamy layer concept, the Dravida Munnettra Kazhagam on Friday said that the Supreme Court judgment, which excludes economically well off Other Backward Classes from enjoying the benefit of 27 per cent reservation in higher education institutions, was not acceptable to it.It hailed the judgment, upholding the validity of 27 per cent reservation, as historic but said the judgment created a slight irritant.
The Tamil Nadu Government on Monday announced that yoga would be made a compulsory subject in all schools in the state from the next academic year. School Education Minister Thangam Thennarasu, while replying to a question by Congress member S Sekar in the Assembly, said efforts were already underway for this purpose.
A Ganesh Nadar profiles a non-governmental organisation that has revealed startling figures about the state's poor children.
The Madras high court on Tuesday dismissed a public interest litigation challenging the Tamil Nadu government constituting a panel on the National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test (NEET), saying it was not contrary to the orders of the Supreme Court on the matter.
More and more women are making their presence felt in jobs related to sciences, technology, and engineering across organisations.
A division bench of Justices R Mahadevan and S Ananthi made an oral observation to this effect when a PIL petition from city-based advocate B Jagannath came up for hearing, on Thursday.
Palanivel Thiaga Rajan was on the hit-list, not because the chief minister was unhappy with his performance, but because there were constant complaints from other ministers that he was sitting on their files far too long, observes N Sathiya Moorthy.
Nagapattinam District Collector J Radhakrishnan, whose handling of the post-tsunami situation in the worst-hit region of Tamil Nadu earned him international acclaim, has been invited by the United States Department of Education for a three-week visit
The Bill, which will replace an ordinance promulgated last month, was unanimously passed by voice vote amidst thumping of desks by members of the House. The Bill sought to provide three-and-a-half per cent reservation each to Muslims and Christians within the 30 per cent reservation provided for backward classes as per a law enacted in 1994.
The Tamil Nadu government on Tuesday imposed a blanket ban on the use of cellphones by students within school premises all over the state. State School Education Minister Thangam Thennarasu said it had been brought to the notice of the government by educationists, parents and the public that the students' attention was getting diverted due to the use of cellphones.
Three more persons, including one in worst-hit Pune, succumbed to the swine flu on Saturday, pushing the country-wide fatalities from the HINI pandemic to 51.
The Tamil Nadu assembly on Tuesday once again adopted the anti-NEET Bill, returned days ago to the government by Governor RN Ravi, with the ruling Dravida Munentra Kazhagam and principal opposition All India Anna DK reaffirming their opposition to the test.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has assured the Tamil Nadu that his government would spare "no effort" to ensure the safe release of Indian priest Alexis Prem Kumar, who was abducted in Afganistan last week.
Traffic Ramaswamy alleged that the statement made by Karunanidhi was aimed at scandalising the court and denigrate the judiciary.
Groundbreaking HIV researcher Dr Suniti Solomon, the first to bring to the world the prevalence of the infection in India in 1986 and one who successfully led research into the treatment of the deadly virus, passed away at her residence in Chennai on Tuesday.
The going is not going to be easy for the DMK and its allies in Elections 2024. Despite the seats sweepstake in the 2021 assembly polls, the vote-share difference of 5.6% (DMK's 45.38% versus AIADMK-BJP's 39.72%) is not insurmountable on a bad day, points out N Sathiya Moorthy.
Dr Suranjan Bhattacharji, director, Christian Medical College, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, which has served India with quality healthcare and education for over a century, says a doctor in a developing country like India has to see himself as an agent of change, not just as a medical practitioner.
Colourful lights illuminated buildings and earthen lamps dotted houses as people across the country celebrated Diwali with pomp on Monday after two years of muted festivities due to the pandemic.
Sprinter Revathi Veeramani is part of the 4x400m Indian mixed relay team in the Tokyo Games, starting July 23.
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